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2017 March 16-17 meeting at UC Berkeley



Attendees

A. Bolatto, R. Levy, P. Teuben, L. Blitz, D. Utomo, T. Wong, Y. Cao, G. Leung, J. Barrera-Ballesteros, S. Sanchez, D. Colombo, V. Kalinova, L. Ellmeier (A. Leroy tentative; E. Ostriker, H. Dannerbauer, E. Rosolowsky, R. Herrera-Camus remotely)

Practical details

The location of the meeting is in the 6th floor of New Campbell Hall (Astronomy Department). The building is within walking distance from Bancroft hotel and Women Faculty Club. The campus map has the Bancroft hotel marked as red star, and the rest as red circles.

The lunch will be provided and we plan to have dinner together on Thursday and Friday night (if you still around). However, there are a lot of store, restaurant, bar, and coffee shops around campus.

If you arrive at San Francisco airport, the cheapest way to get to Berkeley is by taking BART (kind of subway or muni). For domestic travel, you need to go to upper floor (follow sign) to take AirTrain (red line) that connects your terminal to BART station (map here:
http://www.flysfo.com/maps). For international travel, you just need to follow the sign (after passing immigration check point) to get to BART station. Ticket can bought at kiosk (about $10 one way) with card or cash.

Once you're in BART station, you can take BART to Richmond and get off at Berkeley Downtown station. At night or weekend, direct train to Berkeley may not be operated. In this case, you can take BART to Pittsburg/Bay Point, and then, transfer at 19th St. Oakland and get off at Berkeley Downtown. The transfer is easy, you just have to get off and get into the train on the next track (no need to wait). The BART map and schedule are here:
https://www.bart.gov/stationswww.bart.gov. The location of Downtown Berkeley station is marked as circle on the attached map. Note that the walk from the station to the hotel is uphill.

Agenda

Click here for the draft agenda

2016 May meeting



Attendees


A. Bolatto, S. Vogel, A. Harris, R. Levy, P. Teuben, L. Blitz, D. Utomo, T. Wong, Y. Cao, A. Leroy, H. Dannerbauer, E. Ostriker, R. Herrera-Camus, G. Leung, J. Barrera-Ballesteros, S. Sánchez (D. Colombo, V. Kalinova, G. van de Ven remotely)

Practical details

The new building of the Astronomy Department is the "Physical Sciences Complex" (PSC). We are in the first floor of the PSC building. Here is an online map of the UMd campus

There should be a shuttle from the Holiday Inn to the university campus. Walking is probably not practical, although it can be done (it is 2.6 miles, about 50 minutes). If you are driving, please coordinate with other attendees at the hotel. There is pay parking in the parking structure across the street (the "Regents Drive Garage"). The pay spots for parking are specially marked, the daily cost is about $15. If all pay spots are full you'll have to drive to the "Stadium Drive Garage" right next to our football stadium.

The meeting will take place in PSC 1136.

Draft Agenda

We want this to be an open meeting with lots of time to wrap up papers.

May 25

9.30 am start time: coffee, doughnuts, and bagels provided

- Status of CALIFA data (Sanchez)
- Status of EDGE data/proposals (Wong, Bolatto, others)
Spitzer (June 8th)? SOFIA (July 1st)?
- Survey paper status (Bolatto)

Kinematics discussions: Gigi, Jorge, Rebecca, Alberto, Tony, Yixian, Veselina, Dario

- Bridging Galaxy Dynamics and Star Formation Efficiency (Kalinova, remote)
- EDGE-CALIFA rotation curve fitting and comparisons (Leung, Levy)
- Determination of stellar and gas kinematic PA for CALIFA (Barrera-Ballesteros)


May 26

9.30 am start time: coffee, doughnuts, and bagels provided

Metallicities

- Line ratios, abundances, and gradients in the CALIFA galaxies (Sanchez)

Star formation regulation:
Helmut, Dyas, Leo, Eve, Yixian, Dario?

- Kinematic influences on gas depletion time (Colombo, remote)
- Molecular gas depletion times in the galaxy centers (Utomo)
- Star formation and kinematics in early type vs. EDGE galaxies (Blitz)
- Helmut?

Isotopologues

-Yixian?

6.00 pm Dinner at Chatteau Bolatto (30-45 min drive)

May 27

Overview of the edgewise structure and desiderata (Wong, Cao)

Wrapping up papers, and tools. Work on "edgebase".
Outreach/GRAD-MAP. Times of telecons?



2015 April meeting



Attendees


A. Bolatto, S. Vogel, L. Blitz, D. Utomo, T. Wong, Y. Cao, K. Sandstrom, E. Rosolowsky, A. Leroy, H. Dannerbauer, G. van de Ven, E. Ostriker (on Saturday), P. Teuben, A. Harris, M. Wolfire, R. Herrera-Camus, K. Jameson

Practical details

The new building of the Astronomy Department is the "Physical Sciences Complex" (PSC). We are in the first floor of the PSC building. Here is an online map of the UMd campus

There should be a shuttle from the Comfort Inn to the university campus. Alternatively, one can walk along a path to PSC, it will take 15-20 min. If you insist on driving, there is pay parking in the parking structure across the street (the "Regents Drive Garage"). The pay spots for parking are specially marked, the daily cost is about $15. If all pay spots are full you'll have to drive to the "Stadium Drive Garage" right next to our football stadium.

The meeting will take place in PSC 1136.

Draft Agenda

April 9

7 pm
Pre-meeting get together for dinner at Franklin's

April 10

9.30 am Coffee, donuts, & bagels

Discussion of the interferometric observations (Wong/Bolatto/Utomo)
10 am - 11 am

  • Sample selection, process (Bolatto)
  • Observational setup (Wong)
  • Pipeline processing (Wong)
  • Estimating flux recovery (Wong)
  • Analysis tools/data products (Rosolowsky, Leroy, Wong, Bolatto, Utomo)

Discussion of the optical observations (van de Ven)
11 am - noon

  • Status of observations
  • Data products: availability, limitations, plans
  • Future plans in the CALIFA consortium
  • Becoming CALIFA members

Discussion of the single-dish and other ancillary observations
1 pm - 2 pm

  • CO single-dish (Dannerbauer)
  • GBT HI (Blitz/Utomo)
  • Dust mapping (WISE)? (Sandstrom)
  • HST follow ups?
  • ALMA (Bolatto)
  • Other (VLA)?

Review of the ongoing science with the optical observations (van de Ven, Dannerbauer)
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm

  • Science highlights review
  • Open science questions

3.30 pm - 4.00 pm break for ice-cream (distinguished alumnus ceremony)

  • VENGA CO studies (Wong)

7.00 pm Dinner at Chatteau Bolatto (30-45 min drive)

April 11

9.30 am Coffee, donuts, & bagels

Science ideas and brainstorming discussion
Speakers, be prepared for a 10 min presentation with a lot of discussion on second day
10 am -


  • Urgent and easy results to get out (Leroy)
  • Molecular gas as a kinematic probe (van de Ven)
  • VENGA/STING kinematics (Wong)
  • What accounts for the variations in CO content among galaxies? (Blitz)
  • Insights into the CO-to-H2 conversion (Sandstrom)
  • Testing SF theories (Ostriker)
  • Molecular depletion timescales (Leroy, Utomo)
  • SFE and halo mass relations (Rosolowsky)
  • Scatter in the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation (Dannerbauer)
  • Trends in molecular-to-stellar mass and 12CO/13CO ratios (Wong, Cao)
  • Relation between extinction and CO (Bolatto, Leroy)
  • CO and colors/SFH (volunteers??)
  • AGN/feedback/environment and CO (Vogel)
  • Galaxy structure and molecular gas (Sandstrom, Vogel)
  • What governs the HI -> H2? (Leroy, Bolatto)
  • "survey" or "data" paper: science? (where does the milky way fit in the sample, for example) (Bolatto)
  • E-array science: CO luminosities
  • Other?

Potential student projects (everybody)

Commitments and publication plan


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Left to right: Karin Sandstrom, Stuart Vogel, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Glenn van de Ven, Erik Rosolowsky, Tony Wong, Adam Leroy, Dyas Utomo, Peter Teuben, Leo Blitz, Alberto Bolatto, Eve Ostriker, Helmut Dannerbauer, Yixian Cao